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The TCS conundrum

Being in the final year of engineering I could not get more pissed off as I hear people talking about jobs almost 24x7 around me. Like seriously? We live in a culture in which hapiness in getting a job is so profound that everything else including but not limited to Entrepreneurship sounds meagre.

Son (from a PCO or outside the room) : Hello
Mom: Hello, haan beta... Kya hua?
Son: Maa, TCS!
Mom: Kya? (in shock)
Son: Haan maan, TCS mein job mil gaya!
Mom: Mera bachha! Jaldi aa gharpe (in tears)

Like, seriously? This is the state of most of the youth(engineering) in India who get jobs in various MNC's. Those who don't, land up teaching or preparing for some damn kind of entrance exam (even I am doing so, but its justified). 

Imagining an entrepreneur is just not possible! Have a look:

Son (from anywhere): Hello
Mom: Hello, haan beta... kidhar hai?
Son: Maan office mein hoon, aaj 100th customer mila! Bohot jald.... (mom interrupts)
Mom: Haan acha theek hai, ek kaam kar, aatey waqt thoda dahi leke aana.
Son: Haan lekin...
Mom: Beep Beep Beep

I was answering questions on quora and I came up with so many melodramatic reactions to getting a job in an MNC, I know that most of us want to come up the status quo and want security but its just a 'job' in some damn company, answering and revolving your life around some damn clients and their lame projects which have no impact on life or mankind. 

Of course there are exceptions, but I am talking about a more general audience here who is stuck to the Status Quo and wants to drink coffee in Starbucks and pretend to be cool. This post is majorly for engineers or science grads, I can't comment on other streams, I onced asked my just passed commerce friend and he said he got a job in a top tourism company (he was formally dressed with a tie and all) and when i asked him the pay he said 7k. Yes! for a 9-6 job. So I can't comment on that. 

Disrupt the status quo! Try to make an impact with your life and work instead of becoming a modern day slave!

Comments

  1. Sohan Nipunage16 October 2015 at 06:28

    It happens,When rural population in excitement arrives in an urban city by mistake and turns out to get job at tcs. For them its eternity, in reality they should have done those things which they are pro and not in getting streams where salary is quite high,anyway they land up nowhere.... And for such intelligent people we have mncs like the one your article mentioned,Nice article

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